Tankie confusion : Trashpost

[+] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[–] mindbleach 21 points 2 months ago

Conservatives don't agree with things. Conservatives agree with people.

And tankies are conservatives. It's not a political ideology. They're tribalists whose chosen ingroup is anyone doing leftist signalling. Same pattern of behavior as screeching for liberty and freedom while installing a king.

[–] napkin2020 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Tankies are the kind of people who would definitely sell their soul for Trump if they had read another single blog post few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Many of them may still do that anyway.

[+] TankieTanuki -10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Tankies have been anti-NATO since 1949. It has nothing to do with the Red v. Blue spectacle.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So if and when the US is no longer a member of NATO, the Tankies will openly support Trump?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

A lot of them already openly support Trump and promoted him actively on Hexbear and Lemmygrad before the election.

[–] TankieTanuki -5 points 2 months ago

No. Why would we?

[–] RowRowRowYourBot 11 points 2 months ago

And they oppose NATO because they supported Soviet imperialism.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Am I missing something? Aren't tankies just ancap? Also what is Trump saying that is anti capitalism?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Ancap is anarcho-capitalism, e.g. screw the government, stateless society where capitalism is king. Not entirely the tankie viewpoint.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

"Not even close, babyyyyyyy." They might claim some different underlying beliefs, but in practice, just like Libertarians, they're just conservatives trying to hide the fact that they're conservatives by cosplaying as other groups.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot 9 points 2 months ago

AnCaps are idiots that accept the Austrian school of economics.

Tankies are in general poorly educated leftists with limitied logical processing skills.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Tankies supposedly oppose capitalism, and they only support anarchism when it's in the West.

The term is derived from those who sided with the tanks when the USSR rolled into towns and later when the CCP sent the military on their own citizens during an event that resulted in millions of deaths across their nation. You know, "communists" but without any power in the hands of the workers.

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